Monitoring the PIX Firewall Using PDM
One of the abounding benign aspects of PDM is the adeptness to visually adviser virtually
every aspect of the firewall in abreast absolute time. Information such as VPN
connectivity, ability utilization, history bandwidth trending, and administrative
maintenance abstracts can all be beheld via collapsed or bright letters with PDM.
This functionality is accessible from the Monitoring tab of the PDM interface.
Click the Monitoring tab from the capital PDM interface to appearance the
Monitoring awning apparent in Figure 9.77.
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Much like the System Properties screen, the Monitoring awning includes various
categories on the larboard ancillary of the screen.When you bang a category, information
pertinent to the class is displayed on the appropriate ancillary of the screen.
In the archetype in Figure 9.77, the PDM Log class is displayed. Clicking
the PDM Log class allows you to appearance the accepted PDM log based on the
logging akin you baddest from the Logging Akin pull-down list. After you click
the Appearance button, the log appears. From the PDM Log Viewer window, you can
choose to clear, refresh, or abutting the window.To appearance the PDM log, you must
enable PDM logging from the Logging class begin on the System Properties
tab.
Many of the categories, such as PDM Users or Telnet Console Sessions,
describe sessions or statistical abstracts in absolute time on the PIX firewall back you
click the category. Others, such as VPN Statistics,VPN Connection Graphs, and
System Graphs, appearance abreast real-time adapted graphs and/or tables.We altercate all
of these and added in this section.